Producer's Clout
Managing stories, talents, markets
"It gave a really clear, realistic route to fundraising and film-making." Hank Starrs, Producer, Whiteout Films
Duration: Two day seminar
Audience: Emerging film producers and film-makers involved with business issues
Prepares you with a map through the various stages of the film production process and discusses how to meet film industry requirements. It's not just the story that has to suspend disbelief: working on a debut feature, you often have to convince others to use untried talent.
To navigate a passage through 'development hell', you need to:
Day 1 - Plan the Movie
- Understand the needs of the feature film development industry.
- Your individual script's strengths .
- Where do you find your talent?
- How can you make these relationships productive?
- Advanced pitching techniques: involve talent, suppliers and financiers.
- My First Production Company: learn the organic way to a business plan.
- Development finance: shoot a promo tape to sell your talent.
- What makes your project into a viable investment opportunity?
- Various financiers' considerations and requirements.
Day 2 - Make the Movie
- The variety of potential funding: license, minimum guarantee, equity and co-production.
- Understanding contracts: Legal and management issues.
- Standard conditions precedent to funding.
- Delegate tasks across your production team.
- Supervise the shoot: control your cashflow.
- Re-shoots, copyright.
- The implications of your credit and delivery lists.
- The role of your publicist.
- How press, TV and film festivals create audience awareness.
- Work with your sales agent and your distributor.
Please note: Any advice on contracts is very general only and does not constitute legal advice. However, this advice is designed to prepare you for meetings including those with lawyers.